Education

29.1.2013
Dr. phil. (summa cum laude), Universität Leipzig.

20.9.2009–6.9.2009, 16.11.2008–28.11.2008
Seminar for Advanced Studies, Literature and Culture in the Mediterranean (Venice International University).

4.2006–1.2013
Doctoral Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Universität Leipzig.

20.1.2006
Magister Artium, Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Semitics, Philipps-Universität Marburg

9.2001–2.2006
MA-program in Assyriology and Semitics, Philipps-Universität Marburg

9.6.2001
Bachelor of Arts (cum laude), University of Chicago (Thesis Title: "Pseudepigraphy and Parody in the Appendix Vergiliana").

9.1997–6.2001
Undergraduate studies in Classical Philology in the College of the University of Chicago.

Work Experience

10.2015–present
Lecturer in Assyriology, Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.

4.2015 - 9.2015
Guest Lecturer in Assyriology, Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.

4.2014–3.2015
Postdoctoral Researcher,Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.

4.2013–7.2013
Adjunct Lecturer for Akkadian, Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.

4.2013–9.2013
Epigrapher, Study Season of the Excavations in Sâtu Qałâ, Erbil Museum of Antiquities and in the Department of Antiquities, Koy Sanjak.

9.2011–10.2011, 4.2010–6.2010
Epigrapher and Square Supervisor, Excavations of the University of Leiden, Salahaddin-Universität Erbil and Universität Leipzig in Sâtu Qałâ, Iraqi-Kurdistan.

1.2007–7.2012
Research Assistant in the Project "Sources of Early Akkadian Literature," Universität Leipzig, Hebrew University Jerusalem.

3.2006–4.2006
Research Assistant in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg.

8.2004–2.2006
Student Assistant in the Institute of Semitic Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg.

A full list of publications with electronic downloads can also be found hier.

Monographs

2016
Toponyme der mittelassyrischen Texte: Der Westen des mittelassyrischen Reiches. Materialien zu Toponymie und Topographie I/2: Obermesopotamien im 2. Jt. v. Chr. Paris: SEPOA, 2016 (zusammen mit E. Cancik-Kirschbaum). 

2012
Untersuchungen zu den Literatursprachen der mittelbabylonischen Zeit (Dissertation Universität Leipzig; Veröffentlichung in Vorbereitung)

Articles

[in press]
"Standard Babylonian." In A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages, ed. R. Hasselbach. 

[in press]
"Mapping the Linguistic Landscapes of Mesopotamia." In Mapping Ancient Identities, ed. F. Weideman et al.

2015
"Songs of Clay: Materiality and Poetics in Early Akkadian Epic." In Texts and Contexts: Approaches to Textual Transmission in the Cuneiform World, ed. P. Delnero, J. Lauinger, 251–284. SANER 9 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015). \\

2013
"The Inscriptions'' (zusammen mit W. H. Van Soldt) und "The History of Idu in the Middle and Neo-Assyrian Periods," in W. van Soldt et al., "Satu Qala: Preliminary Report on the 2010--2011 Excavations." Anatolica 39 (2013): 197–239.

2010
"Towards the Origins of the Hymnic-Epic Dialect." Kaskal 7 (2010): 101–122.

2010
"Oblique Core Arguments in Akkadian." In Proceedings of the 53^e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Vol. 1: Language in the Ancient Near East, ed. L. Kogan et al., S. 729–749. Babel und Bibel 4. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2010.

Articles in Reference Works

2016
"Verfasser." In Reallexikon der Assyriologie, Band 14/7--8: Ūt(a)-napišti(m)--Waša/ezzi1(i), ed. M. P. Streck, S. 538–539. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.

2012
Entries for "`Anu,"' "`Enlil"' und "`Anzu (Imdugud)." In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, ed. R. Bagnall. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. \\

Reviews

[in press]
[Review of S. Enderwitz, Rebecca Sauer (Hrsg.), Communication and Materiality: Written and Unwritten Communication in Pre-Modern Societies, Materiale Textkulturen 8 (Berlin: de Gruyter 2015)], Gnomon.

[in press]
[Review of V. Sazonov, Die assyrischen Königstitel und -epitheta, SAAS 25 (Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2016)], JAOS.

2016
[Review of T. Bryce, J. Birkett-Rees, Atlas of the Ancient Near East: From Prehistoric Times to the Roman Imperial Period (New York; London: Routledge, 2016)]. BMCR 2016.09.24.

2015
[Review of R. Hasselbach, Case in Semitic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)]. Language Dynamics and Change 5 (2015): 183–187.

2014
[Review of E. Cohen, Conditional Structures in Mesopotamian Old Babylonian (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2012)]. BSOAS 77 (2014): 199–200.

2010
[Review of H. Gzella et al. (Hrsg.), Aramaic in its Historical and Linguistic Setting (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2008)]. Theologische Literaturzeitung 135/7–8 (2010): 806–808.

2009
[Review of K. Lawson Younger (ed.), Ugarit at Seventy Five (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2007)]. ZDMG 159/2 (2009): 396–398.

2008
[Review of R. Hasselbach, Sargonic Akkadian (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005)]. OLZ 103 (2008): 193–200.